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RootsMapper. Place My Past. Mapping Slavery in Detroit — Home. Where Historical Maps and Family History Meet! (HistoryGeo.com) Create beautiful dynamic data driven maps. Buffalo East Side Neighborhood Maps (Genealogy) ChicagoAncestors.org. Use the Browse function to look at all the map points for a particular data collection or category.

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Data in ChicagoAncestors is organized into Collections (groups of items with a similar theme or source, i.e. Yearbook Collection) and Categories (i.e. education, transportation, religious institutions). Boston Atlas - Home. Putting Your Family on the Map – Finding Your Ancestors and Mapping Their History « Obituarieshelp.org/Blog. I remember when I was young that my grandfather had a large wall-sized Map of the World which he used to plot the travels of one of his sons (my uncle) around the globe.

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Said uncle was a merchant seaman, and would let my grandfather know exactly where he was or had been, and granddad would place colored pins on those locations. After 15 years of my uncle’s travels the map was so heavy from the huge amount of pins it was literally falling off the wall, but what a conversation piece it made! Peopled love talking about both family and exotic foreign locations and this is what inspired me to plot the immigration patterns of my ancestors in a similar fashion. Map. Making a Genealogy Map Using the Google Maps API. Introduction I wanted to try out using the Google Maps API for a project, so I decided I’d try to use it in conjunction with some genealogy data to see what I could come up with.

Making a Genealogy Map Using the Google Maps API

The result is a family tree which is mapped out spatially rather than chronologically; once rendered, the following visual data is revealed: Ancestral Atlas - Family Tree Mapping - Family History Sharing. Put history in its place! MapYourAncestors.com - Bringing Genealogy to Life. Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data: Welcome Page. Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy